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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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Search bar to search for a document to be rated in the rating results from UI

From the UI in Watson Discovery, the page dedicated to train Watson, by adding natural language queries and rating the results, sometimes a document that has to be rated is not present in the first pages, so it is time consuming to find that docum...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Rating results from UI in "0-10" format rather than "relevant/not relevant"

From the UI in Watson Discovery, the page dedicated to train Watson, by adding natural language queries and rating the results, lets the user define rating votes only in the "relevant/not relevant" format (Slide1.png). However, if the Watson train...
over 2 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Admin rights to new WKS instance

When I create a new subscription to WKS, it does not automatically assign any rights to the creator. WKS tool assigns admin rights to the first person using it and now others cannot even find who has admin rights. This makes it hard for us to admi...
about 5 years ago in Watson Discovery 0 Not under consideration

Generate Encrypted Password During Silent Install of Web Tier/Gateway

For Linux, to install only the gateway on our webserver, we need to use a silent connect and install (cannot use GUI and will automate installation later). For a gateway only install, the installvariables.properties state that the encrypted passwo...
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Export should have nocoldel or coldelx20

Db2 should allow an export without characters for columns not characters, or space as column delimiter. Something like: export to myfile.csv of del modified by nochardel nocoldel select * from mytable There is something to change the column de...
about 5 years ago in Db2 / Utilities (Export Import Load db2look etc) 0 Not under consideration

Using Fuzzy matches for Intent detection

Fuzzy matching is good at picking up single or plural versions of the same word in our Entities. However, we noticed that if the user request has the exact match with the entity, the correct intent, which uses this entity, is identified with the h...
about 5 years ago in watsonx Assistant 0 Not under consideration

Datastage reportdocument images in JPG and not BMP

Want an option to specify image format of JPG in dsdesign.exe
over 2 years ago in DataStage 1 Not under consideration

Allow AUTHID translation for a trusted connection with a trusted context from DB2 z/OS to a remote DB2 LUW subsystem

A DBA for client that I support is requesting the ability to allow AUTHID translation for a trusted connection with a trusted context from DB2 z/OS to a remote DB2 LUW subsystem when SECURITY_OUT=P and USERNAMES=S IN SYSTEM.IPNAMES table and TYPE=...
about 5 years ago in Db2 for z/OS 1 Functionality already exists

Record level Information Required in DSODB Database

We are pulling Job level information from DSODB and looking for Record level Information but we do not see the required information. Please let us know how to pull the following: 1. Average_Record_Length 2. Input_Volume_In_Bytes 3. Output_Volume_I...
over 7 years ago in DataStage 0 Not under consideration

Request Ranger Support for SPSS

Our company uses hive tables to validate data in hadoop. We use an application called Ranger to control authorization to hdfs and hive. Since we use Ranger the actual hdfs file permissions and hive access controls are not used by us. Currently it ...
over 7 years ago in SPSS Modeler / SPSS Analytics Server 0 Not under consideration